Nigeria's military says it has used precision airstrikes to kill at least 35 Islamic militants in the country's northeast ...

Niger's army said its soldiers killed a leader of the jihadist group Boko Haram in the Lake Chad basin, but experts cast ...

Jubilation as 25 Islamic State West Africa Province ISWAP and Jama’atu Ahlis Sunna Lidda’awati wal-Jihad members have ...

The risk is that it rises into something much larger that then presents a much greater threat on the global scene,' one ...

U.N. counterterrorism experts warn that Islamic State extremists are exploiting instability in Africa and Syria and remain a ...

Hamizu Matazu (Maiduguri)Six suspected Boko Haram members, including Muslim Mohammed Yusuf, son of the late founder of the Boko Haram terrorist sect, Mohammed Yusuf, were said to have been arrested in ...

Militant Islamist groups have expanded their presence in Africa and more than doubled fatalities linked to violent activities ...

As the Islamic State is squeezed out of its self-proclaimed caliphate in the Middle East, its offshoot in West Africa, the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP), appears to be growing even ...

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The threat from Islamic State and al-Qaida extremists and their affiliates ... Their report to the U.N. Security Council circulated Wednesday said West Africa's al-Qaida-linked ...

Borno state has witnessed an upsurge in attacks by suspected Boko Haram and Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) assailants this year, raising concerns that the militants are making gains ...

Islamic State (IS) killed 11 Nigerian soldiers in an attack on the northeastern town of Gajiganna, the group claimed through its news agency AMAQ on Saturday.

The United States launched a rare ground operation in northern Somalia that apprehended Abdiweli Mohamed Yusuf, the finance emir for the Islamic State’s so-called Somali Province. The raid was the ...